Ethnographic paper For this paper, you will mimic Horace Miner and take an ethnographic approach to your own everyday reality. Select a site that you regularly spend time in and have not thought twice about; then attempt to look at it from afar as a stranger. For those of you who live on campus, this […]
What conclusions as an anthropologist can you draw about the practice based on what you have found out, and what anthropological work you have read relating to the belief/practice.
Familiar Strange Making the familiar strange assignment:One of the ways to describe anthropology is a discipline that, “makes the strange familiar and makes the familiar strange”. That is, it encourages you to look at practices you don’t know about and might think are a little odd in such a way that you begin to understand, […]